ZIP 44117 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 44117 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio comes in at 21, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100). The latent-versus-live split is 47/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (47/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (9/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100).

The peak-phase market in 44117 posted values that rose 3.8% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $41,818 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 16.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. About 20% have a four-year degree. There are about 5,377 housing units across 44117. The typical home is worth about $143,100 (3.3× income, relatively affordable). Around 56% of renters are cost-burdened. 41% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 9,350 with a median age of 51. The vacancy rate is 10.9%.

Net-net, 44117 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 44117 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 44117 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 21/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 44117 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

44117's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 44117 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.